D50 · Closed · a plan for White
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation
9/9
1.d4d52.c4e63.Nc3Nf64.Bg5c55.cxd5
Live databaseLichess 1600–2000 · blitz + rapid
Queen's Gambit Declined: Pseudo-Tarrasch Variation73k games · Black to move
MoveWhite / draw / BlackPlayedGamesScore
77%57k47%
19%14k48%
1.2%90246%
1.1%79545%
0.2%1264%
0.1%7945%
0.1%7212%
0.1%5119%
0.1%4444%
Famous games in this line122 master games
Grandelius, N. (2642) – Naiditsch, A. (2684)Del Rio de Angelis, Salvador Gabriel (2531) – Gustafsson, Jan (2643)Savchenko, B. (2633) – Bezgodov, A. (2493)Timman, Jan H (2590) – Sosonko, Gennadi (2530)Kortschnoj, Viktor (2625) – Hector, Jonny (2465)Kunin, Vitaly L (2507) – Solodovnichenko, Yuri (2565)Nei, Iivo (2510) – Bronstein, David I (2560)Hansen, Curt (2570) – Polgar, Zsuzsa (2500)Heroes of this opening Bezgodov, A. · Kortschnoj, Viktor · Bronstein, David I · Hansen, Curt
- Family
- Queen's Gambit
- Category
- Closed
- First move
- 1.d4
- ECO
- D50
- Line
- 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c5 5. cxd5
Classical
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The Queen's Gambit appears in the earliest opening manuscripts (c. 1490, Göttingen). It anchored world-championship matches for a century — Capablanca–Alekhine 1927 was practically a Queen's Gambit theme event — and in 2020 a TV show made a 500-year-old pawn offer the most famous opening on the planet. It isn't even a real gambit: Black can't safely keep the pawn.
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